The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
You can help shape a new Spalding town centre attraction as a museum holds its open day this weekend.
ARTeFACT is to be a new permanent brass plaque and animated arts trail that will connect the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society to other key and historic Spalding locations.
The Broad Street museum itself is holding an open day from 11am to 4pm on Sunday.
And those behind ARTeFACT, including Transported Arts and artists Steven Hatton and Neil Baker from Electric Egg will be highlighting what they’re doing with the brass plaque trail.
A spokesman for Transported Arts, said: “In this free day out, the public can create a brass rubbing, see and explore the historical items, share their memories and inform a new public arts trail.
“The work produced from these workshops and engagements with the public will inspire the artwork and animations that will be created for the trail.”
It’s part of the £30,000 Arts Council grant that groups have received as they look to take the museum’s artefacts into the town.
The project included Spalding Gentlemen’s Society hosting a store on Spalding Market and showing off some of its many artefacts.
The artists involved have also taken work into Spalding St Paul’s Primary School and Spalding High School where students created illustrations and cyanotypes; a photographic printing process made popular in the Victorian era.
